WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The nominee for U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, told a group of other Republicans in a text chain that the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has a “Nazi streak,” according to a report published on Monday by Politico.

Ingrassia, who currently works as White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security, also called assassinated civil rights leader King the “1960s George Floyd,” referring to the Black man killed by Minneapolis police in 2020, the report said.

Ingrassia’s Senate nomination hearing for the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates federal whistleblower complaints and discrimination claims, is scheduled for Thursday.

A lawyer for Ingrassia, Edward Andrew Paltzik, tol

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